Risk Management Ideas at Work Articles
April 29, 2013

Climate Change and Productivity

New research reveals severe weather's toll on manufacturing

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April 29, 2013

Could Uncertainty Cause a Recession?

New research explores whether asymmetric information about corporate assets could have been the sole cause of the recent crisis.

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April 29, 2013

A Better Standard for Credit Risk

A new metric uses publicly disclosed bank information to better predict credit losses from loans.

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February 28, 2013

Nobody Likes a Rat

When are colleagues likely to report each other for lying, and what happens when they do?

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January 30, 2013

Risk, Innovation, and Social Value

Bruce Kogut, the director of the School's Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics, discusses the center's latest perspective about making the financial sector work for Wall Street and Main Street after the financial crisis.

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November 30, 2012

A Smarter, Smaller Grid

Klaus Lackner, Garrett van Ryzin

Can the principles of small modular infrastructure free us from the electrical grid — and make large-scale power failures in the aftermath of weather catastrophes like Sandy a thing of the past?

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September 25, 2012

First In Trouble — and Last Out

Why are the homeowners who can most benefit from strategic default on underwater mortgages the least likely to choose it?

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April 30, 2012

Holding On to Options

Offering equity options to senior managers may encourage them to take fewer risks.

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April 30, 2012

Accounting and Systemic Risk

Professors Trevor Harris and Doron Nissim and Executive-in-Residence Robert Herz discuss their new paper on accounting's role in reporting, creation, and reduction of systemic risk at financial institutions and across the financial system.

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